Agenda:
1) Intro.
2) Brainstorm Action Items
3) Choose Items (3 votes per person)
4) Break Into Groups (4 priorities)
5) Bring priorities back to the whole
6) Representative “Swearing in”
7) Committees
8) Funding Criteria Groups
1. Intro:
What GSA does
Intros of officers & attendees
Council member responsibilities
Roberts Rules
2. & 3. Brainstorm
- transportation (night parking, added hours…) 19
- TA-student ratio 6
- Ethical treatment of graduate students 18
- Family student housing & graduate student housing rents 8
- GSHIP 11
- Fee increases (fewer graduate students supportable in each dept.) 17
- More social events GRAD COLLEGE 1
o LRDP?
- get more food vendors on campus (especially science hill, especially
weekends & nights) GRAD COLLEGE
o Grad Commons gets money from Joe’s. Effects of more food places
on this?
o This issue has been taken up with LRDP
- more TA sabbaticals 1
- undergraduate educations 0
o Quantitative courses under debate
- GSR link to the TA union? Or separate union rights? 6
o Need new person to spearhead!
o TA union may not be down
- Grad Student Commons control/regulation 0
- Bureaucracy problems (bill statements & pay) 2
o Maybe navigation help
- Out of state and/or international students fee decrease 8
- DRC (part time right to TA) 2
4. & 5. Come back from small groups
PARKING
- night parking poorly enforced/executed
o re-visited in a year (accounting appropriately)
o meters (core west)
- grad housing -> guest permits not liscense specific
- dissolve the difference between A and B permits
- metro buses run more frequently
- bus strike
o increase bike shuttles and do this later in the morning too
o how to support the strikers?
ETHICAL TREATMENT OF GRAD STUDENTS
- appeals process
- clear guidelines for mentorship
- accountability for profs
GSHIP
- new leader
- long range plan (in five years the premium will have to double)
FEE INCREASE
- rally at the regents vote in November
o organize folks to rally at Berkeley
- Arnold’s special election will affect education
o Get out the vote!
o Vote and food party
o Social voting, “…come with me!”
o Talk to Chancellors about the state of education
- Outreach to undergrads/ collaboration with undergrads
6. All new reps approved
7. Committee sign-ups
Campus Land Use Management Advisory
Committee Patrick/ Sabrina
Chancellor’s Sustainability
Katie
Child Care Advisory Board
Amy
Committee on Teaching
Teresa/Kimbereley
Graduate Students Commons Governance Board
Scout, Sina, James
Long Range Development Plan
Patrick
Student Judicial Affairs
Shawn Halle
Title IX Advisory Committee
Marina
Transportation: TAC, TOC
Brian, Suzy Young
Health Center Renovation Committee
Nick
Committee for the Ethical Treatment of Grad
Students Patrick, Shawn Halle
Grad Housing
Teresa, Emily
Graduate Student Health Insurance
Allison,
Nick
Social Committee
Teresa, Nick Reynold
UCSA Legislative and Campus Action
Committee Emily
8. Funding request criteria committee
Extra. Funding Request from CSSA
Funded $300